Tanzquartier Wien

This workshop is based on the traditional Indian practices that focus on mind expansion, which we will use as a resource for our creative artistic process. The workshop will include a close introspection of the inner processes of our bodies and we will try to establish a balance between the opposing poles of long-lasting standstill and active movement. The first step will be to redirect our attention to the inner activities during standstill, with the aim to make acute observations of the sensory, motoric and other inner activities. From there, we will build on this individually experienced anatomy, an organisation of the body defined purely by the inner sensations. Our objective will then be to train and enhance this sensory intelligence. These moments of silence can last for only a few moments or for up to half an hour, and they require a certain unobtrusive endurance and relaxation as well as a trained body. We will closely examine the limits of rest, endurance and our own ability to search. Our findings will finally leave us in a subtle space of expanded consciousness. Afterwards, we will talk about how this state can inspire us as individual artists and what kind of dance, situation or new space of possibility this state might generate.